v1.0.6 build 60 - 2011-12-17 * Made it so that while dragging the volume or seekbar, it will still work if you move the cursor outside the boundary of the control.

v1.0.6 build 59 - 2011-12-02 ! Toaster wasn't popping up properly due to changes in the last build. (Thanks, Winkie)

v1.0.6 build 58 - 2011-11-29 * Triggering the toaster popup via a hotkey will now work regardless of the "Do not show toaster popup while main window is active" setting. (Thanks, Winkie) - Under Win95/98, took out mouse button hotkeys as they are not supported under those operating systems.

v1.0.6 build 40 - 2011-11-01 + Added basic support for cover art in tags. Notes: # Only the first image in the file will display. # Only JPG and PNG formats are supported. # Will not work on Win9x/ME. =[

v1.0.6 build 16 - 2011-08-20 + Added "Sample" column to display a file's sample rate frequency in Hz. You will initially see it as the last column. Simply drag it to the position you want. For those that don't want it, you can hide it via the View menu. (Thanks, AEN007)

v1.0.6 build 15 - 2011-08-19 + Options > Paths tab. You can now set which folder Trout uses to load and save playlists. (Thanks, AEN007) + New /playpause commandline switch. This will act as a toggle between play and pause. (Thanks, AEN007) + Added $samplerate as a usable token for string formatting. (Thanks, AEN007) * The /play commandline switch will no longer pause a track. Use /playpause if you want a toggle. (Thanks, AEN007) * The /pause commandline switch will no longer unpause a track. Use /playpause if you want a toggle. (Thanks, AEN007)

v1.0.5 build 78 - 2011-02-25 + Added hidden Write_File_INI and Write_File_XML settings. Enabling either or both will cause Trout to write a track_info.ini and/or a track_info.xml file to Trout's folder with the tag data of the currently playing track. You can then read/parse this data for use in your own scripts. (Thanks, Armoured) To enable these, add the following lines to the [Settings] section of Trout's config.ini file: Write_File_INI=1 Write_File_XML=1

v1.0.5 build 23 - 2011-01-18 + Added Comment column. You will initially see it as the last column. Simply drag it to the position you want. For those that don't want it, you can hide it via the View menu. (Thanks, J. Elmes)

v1.0.5 build 22 - 2011-01-18 + Added Composer column. You will initially see it as the last column. Simply drag it to the position you want. For those that don't want it, you can hide it via the View menu. (Thanks, tDJ)

v1.0.5 build 19 - 2011-01-17 * Removed the mandatory playlist position from the titlebar formatting. Apologies to those poorly coded Winamp plugins that rely on this. =] - Regressed the change made in v1.0.5.2. To start off with a random song, press the next button instead of the play button.

v1.0.5 build 6 - 2011-01-06 ! If the value set for "Rewind track # seconds when resuming from pause" was set and the elapsed time of a track was less, Trout wouldn't rewind the track when resuming. Now Trout will reset the track time to the start of the track. (Thanks, brotherS) ! Fixed a title setting issue. (Thanks, brotherS)

v1.0.5 build 2 - 2010-12-23 * Pressing play with random mode set will now start off with a random song. (Thanks, brotherS)

v1.0.4 build 87 - 2010-07-14 ! Album art wasn't queried when launching the lyrics windows while a song was playing. (Thanks, BeccyBoo)

v1.0.4 build 84 - 2010-07-13 * Changed recently added behaviour regarding URLs that are actually files. Instead of reading tags on load, they will be read on actual playback. This should alleviate the slow adding of these types of files to the list.

v1.0.4 build 83 - 2010-07-13 + Added ability for Trout to read tags from and seek URLs that are actually files e.g. http://www.site.com/music/song.mp3. Trout will read the tags when you ADD the files so you will have to re-add the files in your playlist to see the tags. (Thanks, ignotus)

v1.0.4 build 71 - 2010-06-20 + Added an option to specify the timeout of the balloon tip under the Options, General tab. (Thanks, Lesmo16) * Disabled the sound on the balloon tip. (Thanks, Lesmo16)

v1.0.4 build 67 - 2010-06-05 ! When adding streams, the station name, if available, will be entered into the filename column. This is in addition to the album column as before. (Thanks, Lesmo16)

v1.0.4 build 65 - 2010-06-05 + Added two new File menu options. (Thanks, Lesmo16) 1) Clear list and add file(s) 2) Clear list and add folder + Added Libre.fm scrobbling support. (Thanks, Bziur) + Added a "Full screen" mode. Default hotkey is F11. You can also set your own hotkey for this or invoke it from the View menu. + Added new token "$part_of_set". This corresponds to the ID3v2 tag TPOS and is usally used to denote which disc of a multi-disc set a song comes from. This token can be used in the string formatting sections. (Thanks, Lesmo16) ! Muted volume would unmute on a track change. (Thanks, lanux128)

v1.0.4 build 1 - 2010-02-04 * Revamped Trout's upper GUI. (Thanks, Lesmo16) 1) Larger, multi-line title text area. Right-clicking on this area will allow you to copy the text to your clipboard. 2) Larger album art. 3) Volume control moved horizontally under the control buttons. + Under Tools, Options, String formatting tab, you can now preview any and all formatting changes easily.

v1.0.3 build 238 - 2009-11-02 * Reverted the new "/add" and auto-play changes that were made until I can come up with a more reliable way to handle this functionality. Apologies to those that made use of them.

v1.0.3 build 158 - 2009-10-30 ! Help icons in the Option dialog weren't showing up properly. ! Lyrics weren't searched automatically if the lyrics window was opened while a track was playing. (Thanks, lanux128)

v1.0.3 build 154 - 2009-10-29 + Added album art to the bottom of the lyrics window. + Added code to try and prevent accidental unwanted double-clicks on the listview. + Lyrics window now handles a third format from http://lyrics.wikia.com. I wish they would just re-introduce the API. Grrr. + Added a new command-line parameter: /add (Thanks, tanis) Here's how it works now... 1) If you pass a path to Trout on the commandline, it will clear the list before adding the tracks e.g. c:\path\to\trout.exe c:\myMusic 2) If you use the new /add parameter, it will NOT clear out the list before adding the new path e.g. c:\path\to\trout.exe /add c:\myMusic

v1.0.3 build 30 * Text-to-Speech option will now only announce tracks during playback, not from manual advancing. (Thanks, mouser)

v1.0.3 build 26 ! Fixed CD loading. (Thanks, app103)

v1.0.3 build 25 + Support for ASX/WMA internet streams and their tags (if present). + Added a second search button to the lyrics window. Now, you can search an artist specifically without having to blank out the title field. * Improvements to playlist parsing routines for streaming URLs.

v1.0.3 build 7 ! Fixed toaster not disappearing on click when set that way. (Thanks, app103)

v1.0.3 build 6 ! Fixed (hopefully) lyrics window position saving bug.

v1.0.3 build 4 + Added a basic lyrics display. Lyrics are provided by http://www.lyricwiki.org so, to make use of this feature, you will need to have "Allow internet access" enabled under Tools, Options. Once you have that done, choose "Show lyrics window" from the View menu. Some notes: 1) The lyrics window will even work for streaming music sites that send the artist/title info. 2) The lyrics window also can function in a stand-alone manner. Simply enter the artist and track title and click the search button. 3) If you do a search on just an artist, a list of all songs that LyricWiki has lyrics for will be returned.

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v1.0.2 build 269 + Added a Text-To-Speech option to the "New track notification" options. (Thanks, mouser) + Added an option so you can choose what happens to the toaster popup when you click on it. Currently, you can make it stay on-screen until it loses focus or you can make it disappear immediately. Tools, Options, Toaster tab. (Thanks, app103) * Improved the "Repeat file" mode to do gapless looping. (Thanks, superboyac) ! Add URL GUI showed up incorrectly under Windows 7 Beta. (Thanks, temp01) ! Album art showed up incorrectly on startup if Trout was installed on the root of a drive. (Thanks, temp01)

v1.0.2 build 236 + Added "Enable/disable Last.fm" to the playlist's Last.fm context menu. + Added Last.fm icon to the statusbar. Single-clicking on it will toggle between a red icon (Last.fm enabled) and a grey icon (Last.fm disabled). Right-clicking it will bring up the same Last.fm menu as above. + Added an option for a configurable number of seconds to rewind when resuming from a pause state. Leave it set at zero (0) to turn it off. [Thanks, brotherS]

v1.0.2 build 220 + When the minibars have focus, the wheelmouse will control volume. [Thanks, Deozaan] + Double-clicking the album art now brings it up in your system's default viewer. [Thanks, none exist] + Added "Show toaster popup after resuming from a pause state" option under Options, Toaster dialog. [Thanks, Deozaan] * Changed up the album art logic slightly to better handle newly added folder.jpg files. [Thanks, drugwash] * Rearranged the Options, General dialog to accomodate future settings. * The Last.fm "Love Track" button is now an option under the Options, Last.fm dialog. [Thanks, Deozaan] ! Fixed Trout's alt-tab icon to use the proper size. [Thanks, lanux128] ! Fixed (hopefully) the tracks-playing-out-of-order issue. [Thanks, drugwash] ! Fixed a tray icon issue where it wouldn't show if the user didn't have "Always show tray icon" checked but DID have "Minimize to tray on startup" checked. [Thanks, Deozaan]

v1.0.2 build 178 + Added two checkboxes to the Options, Toaster tab: 1) Enable toaster popup. 2) Do not show toaster popup while main window is active. * Improved the seek and volume bars: 1) A single mousedown session cannot affect both controls. [Thanks, brotherS & SoggyDog] 2) Letting go of the left mouse button outside of the seekbars will now work. This should allow for dragging the seekbar all the way back to the start of the song or all the way to the end of a song. [Thanks, SoggyDog] * Clicking on the toaster popup will keep it open as long as it's the active window.

v1.0.2 build 172 + Added a play button to the "Play track/beep between tracks" option so you can preview the chosen sound file. [Thanks, brotherS] + Added a checkbox on the Options form to enable/disable the "Play track/beep between tracks" function. [Thanks, brotherS] + Added another hidden config.ini setting under Settings: Update_Method=zip Setting this will allow the DcUpdater app to work with Trout's portable zip file as opposed to the installer.

v1.0.2 build 153 + New option under Options, General. You can now set how the listview behaves when dropping files on it (or the minibars). Choices are: - Never clear the existing playlist (Default/current way) - Always clear the existing playlist - Always ask me what to do [Thanks, mouser] + Created a new "List" menu entry and moved the "Remove track after playback" option to it. + Added a "Play track/beep between tracks" options. This is mainly for listening to audio books so you can be alerted to chapter changes, etc. You set the options under Options, General and toggle the functionality using the List menu entry. [Thanks, brotherS & mouser] ! Fixed a seeking issue where Trout wouldn't behave properly if the elapsed time was smaller than the user-set seek interval. This also cropped up if the remaining time was less than the seek interval. [Thanks, brotherS]

v1.0.2 build 149 + Added a "Remove track after playback" option to the View menu. This will make Trout act in a sort of queue mode. [Thanks, app103] + Added Last.fm "love" functionality to the minibars. Currently, this will take you directly to the track's page on Last.fm so you can mark it as loved. Future plans will be to make this button "love" a track automatically. [Thanks, app103] ! The $time_r/$time_e tokens now update in realtime. Putting those tokens in the titlebar string may result in flickering. [Thanks, brotherS]

v1.0.2 build 146 + Another hidden config.ini setting: WinampAPI_Titlebar_Fix=1 What this does is add a " - Winamp" to the titlebar text. The reason is that some WinampAPI driven front-ends will actually crash if that text isn't there...even though they eventually strip it for display. The mind boggles. [Thanks, hollow87 & app103] + Column orders are now saved. [Thanks, app103] ! Removing files from the listview should be much quicker (back to the way it used to be).

v1.0.2 build 106 + Added "Explore here" option to the Edit/context menu. [Thanks, apfel] + Added an option for specifying a custom file manager in regards to the 'Explore here' feature. It's under the Tools, Options, General tab. You use the $file_p token for the path. I use Altap Salamander as my file manager of choice so I have the following specified:

C:\apps\file\Salamander\salamand.exe -L "$file_p"

This would open Altap Salamander with the left pane at the path of the currently focused song. If a custom file manager is not specified, the path is simply "run" and Windows Explorer will most likely display (unless you have some other file manager specified as default on your system). * Cut the tray menu back down the basics as it was getting out of hand.

v1.0.2 build 103 + Added website button to the About dialog. [Thanks, Darin] + Playlist block selections are now movable via ctrl-up and ctrl-down. [Thanks, majkinetor] + Added the following as hotkeyable items: Add files, Add folders, Load playlist, and Add URL. [Thank, tomos] + Added DonationCoder DcUpdater compatibility. [Thanks, lanux128] If you would like to use this functionality, do the following: 1) Download and install mouser's DcUpdate application from here:http://www.donationc...s/DcUpdaterSetup.exe 2) Download this and extract dcuhelper.exe to your Trout folder:http://www.donationc...nloads/dcuhelper.zip 3) You will now see the new option under the Help menu. * Updated to latest BASS format plugins. * Updated to latest BASS library. [Thanks, k3ph] ! Added code to prevent duplication of hotkeys. [Thanks, SoggyDog]

v1.0.2 build 38 + Added a Last.fm entry to the edit/context menu. You can go directly to the artist/album/title on Last.fm's website. [Thanks, app103] + Added the Edit menu to the minibar's menu. ! Further fixes to the Last.fm submit checks. [Thanks, app103] * Changed up the 'Minimize to tray on startup' routine to be more reliable. [Thanks, app103]

v1.0.2 build 6 * Fixed volume control issues introduced when I did the listview response changes.

v1.0.2 build 1 + Added basic Last.fm support. Trout's support of Last.fm is limited to the following: 1) A track must be longer than thirty seconds to be considered for submittal. 2) Artist and title tags MUST be present. 3) "Now playing" information will be sent ten seconds into track playback. 4) For a track to be "submitted", it must have played at least 240 seconds OR half its track length. 5) Trout does NO caching of tracks. It's pretty doubtful I will add this capability in the future unless there is some huge need for it. See the following URL for more details: http://www.last.fm/api/submissions#subs + Mousewheel over the main window's volume control now changes the volume. * Re-arranged the Edit menu a bit. There is now a "Selection" entry with several sub-entries. 'Invert selection', 'Remove from list', and 'Rescan tags' have been moved to this submenu. There is also a new entry that will allow you to delete the selection to the Recycle Bin. If a file can't be deleted to the bin, you will be warned of such and allowed the option of deleting the file directly. * Tried to improve the responsiveness of the listview when switching tracks by double-clicking.

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+ added* changed- deleted! bug fixed

v1.0.1 build 96 - Reverted the tooltip changes from build 95 until I can make them work more reliably.

v1.0.1 build 95 + Added sections in Options for custom colour choices for new slider controls. * Completely changed up the volume and seekbar sliders. They now use standard progress bars. * The minibar tools tips now pick up their colour from the volume colour settings. I will add a separate colour option if there is call for it. [Thanks, app103] * Shortened up the Options dialog a bit to (hopefully) fit certain laptop resolutions. [Thanks, Controller] ! Tray menu "Stop" action didn't function properly. ! Clicking cancel on colour dialog would improperly reset the control. [Thanks, Controller]

v1.0.1 build 84 + Added "Rescan selected" as a hotkeyable item. This should make it easy to highlight files and quickly rescan their tags. [Thanks, tomos] + Added "Edit tags" as a hotkeyable item. + Added "Filename" column. [Thanks, Tomos] * Revised the main GUI a tiny bit (slimmed down the side borders). ! Random mode will start with the currently highlighted file. [Thanks, tomos] ! Fixed the "skip over unplayable tracks" behaviour. [Thanks, apfel]

v1.0.1 build 80 + Added "Rescan tags of selected files" to the edit menu. + Added BASIC tag editing capabilities to Trout. There are some caveats. You can only edit one file at a time. By default, the following tag types will be written to the following file types:

You can TRY to force ID3v1, ID3v2, and/or APEv2 tags by checking the appropriate boxes. This does not work for all file types. + Added another section to the statusbar that shows the total number of tracks in the playlist as well as whatever row is focused e.g. 2/12.

v1.0.1 build 79 + Added "Play CD in drive ?:" as a hotkeyable item. This should work dynamically for any number of & letter of CDROM drives. [Thanks, nogojoe]

v1.0.1 build 73 + Added option for a custom string display when tags are missing. The default string is "<missing>" but you can change it to whatever you'd like. Tools, Options, General, Tags section. [Thanks, app103]

v1.0.1 build 71 + Added much more comprehensive error-checking and user notification to the CD play and freedb.org routines.

v1.0.1 build 59 + Added EXPERIMENTAL support for GTalk/GoogleTalk's "Show current music track" option. Enable it under Tool, Options, General tab. [Thanks, Mike] ! Attempted to fix a potential race condition bug sometimes resulted in two handles being played at once. [Thanks, apfel & nogojoe]

v1.0.1 build 33 ! The list search window wasn't set as owner properly which resulted in an unwanted taskbar button. + Added keyboard control to the Find Track dialog. Up/down/enter now affect the listbox as one would expect them to.

v1.0.1 build 30 ! The list search window wasn't set as owner properly which resulted in an unwanted taskbar button.

DescriptionMy main audio player for many years has been, and will remain, foobar but there are some times when I just want a simple "load'n'play" type of player. An application that comes very close is Billy. It's a FANTASTIC little app that fits in with my preference in software...standard controls, no skins, etc. However, it only supports MP3, WAV, OGG, & FLAC and it also doesn't display tags. My audio collection comprises many more formats than that and I tag files religiously. So, with that in mind, I've always wanted to write my own simple player. A good friend and I have wrapped the BASS audio engine in AutoHotkey and I've written a player (in AutoHotkey as well) called Trout.

Apollo is another fantastic player that I've used in the past. About the only thing that it couldn't do was display Japanese characters properly for me. Trout isn't really meant to compete with any of these big guns. That being said, may I ask what you might expect from Trout that Apollo currently doesn't have/do?

better Winamp input plugins handling - I don't know why but some of them don't work for me at all (ex. MP4).

better system's RMB support - Few times I had situation when Apollo replaced system's default "Open" action for folders. Double click on folder was starting empty Apollo and "Add to Apollo" or "Enqueque in Apollo" didn't work at all.

applications titlebar hook - I remember seeing in some player the feature which allowed to embed player's buttons in topmost application's title bar.

dim all visualisation - Grey out whole desktop and show mini-player in the middle of the screen (just buttons + track info).

Since AutoHotkey doesn't support unicode (natively), this won't happen until AHK does.

better Winamp input plugins handling - I don't know why but some of them don't work for me at all (ex. MP4).

-fenixproductions

Currently, Trout doesn't support Winamp input plugins, though I hope to at some point. However, mp4 files play fine with the BASS AAC or ALAC plugin.

better system's RMB support - Few times I had situation when Apollo replaced system's default "Open" action for folders. Double click on folder was starting empty Apollo and "Add to Apollo" or "Enqueque in Apollo" didn't work at all.

-fenixproductions

This is something I've tried to get working properly and I've come pretty close.

applications titlebar hook - I remember seeing in some player the feature which allowed to embed player's buttons in topmost application's title bar.

-fenixproductions

I highly doubt you'll see this from me. There are two minibar modes that Trout can display, though.

dim all visualisation - Grey out whole desktop and show mini-player in the middle of the screen (just buttons + track info).

-fenixproductions

Again, not something you'd see from me.

Trout was written to fill a niche for me (and to show what can be done with AHK). Again, it's not about to replace foobar as my main player nor is it meant to compete with any of the other mainstream players out there.

Streaming audio was not tested due to the fact that the PC is on 33.6k dialup. I only tested it with local wav & mp3 files and CD's, as that's all I have available for that machine. I also didn't test all features.

I really like the nice compact size of the minibars. The size is perfect! It would be nice if there was some sort of tooltip on the minibar to give you some sort of hint what you are listening to. (I know it's on the tray icon, but I keep my taskbar hidden) It would also be nice if there was an option to keep the minibar always on top.

Drag & drop from Explorer works wonderful! Thanks for that!

Some issues (might not be 9x related, I'll test on XP later and let you know):

It took a looooong time to load a folder of files. You can't play anything till it's finished loading the files. I ended up having to wait 30 minutes!

When you resize the window the list box doesn't resize with it until it's finished loading all the files.NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

There are no scrollbars and I couldn't see what was in the other columns unless I maximized the window. I had to use the keyboard to scroll up/down. No way to scroll left/right though. Scrollbars do show if I close the player and open again, as long as I don't clear & create a new list. (scrollwheel on my mouse doesn't work, so those bars are important to me)

The seekbar leaves the limits of the window during play, unless I close and reopen and don't clear & create a new list.NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

It's possible to have both minibars on the screen at the same time. (shouldn't it be one or the other, but not both?)

Occasionally, when I double click the icon on the minibar to show the main window, afterwards, when I move my mouse, the minibar sticks & moves with it (but not necessarily under my pointer) till I click somewhere else. It would be possible to lose the minibar offscreen if I were to click the desktop while the minibar was offscreen. Might want to confine the minibar to the desktop to prevent that from happening. (I have the same issue with an application I wrote and had to confine it to the desktop after a user lost it and had no way to get it back besides editing the registry)

Seekbar & playlist font issue: can't use a different font than the default one or the size is too tiny and I can't adjust font size. Settings are ignored. (I wanted Arial bold, because it's clearer & easier for me to read) I was afraid to change the font on the toaster because I didn't see a button to revert it back to default if there was an issue.NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

It doesn't read tags properly. It shows the file name where Artist should be, doesn't show album/title/year/genre. This affects the playlist, seekbar, titlebar, and toaster.

freeDB worked fine and displayed all the info, but I couldn't get Trout to play CD's at all on that machine. It could be an issue with my drive though. Very few players actually work with it...only 2 that I know of, one came with my keyboard and the other one is some crappy thing that I wrote in VB6. (At least Trout didn't crash like Winamp & WMP does when trying to play CD's)

I really like the nice compact size of the minibars. The size is perfect! It would be nice if there was some sort of tooltip on the minibar to give you some sort of hint what you are listening to. (I know it's on the tray icon, but I keep my taskbar hidden)

Piece of cake. I'll add it into the next build. Thanks for the suggestion.

It would also be nice if there was an option to keep the minibar always on top.

Right-click the Trout icon on the minibar...you'll see the AoT option there.

It took a looooong time to load a folder of files. You can't play anything till it's finished loading the files. I ended up having to wait 30 minutes!

How many files were in this folder?

It's possible to have both minibars on the screen at the same time. (shouldn't it be one or the other, but not both?)

Ehhh, I figured why limit it to one or the other?

Some issues (might not be 9x related, I'll test on XP later and let you know):

When you resize the window the list box doesn't resize with it until it's finished loading all the files.

Invert selection doesn't work.

Seekbar & playlist font issue: can't use a different font than the default one or the size is too tiny and I can't adjust font size. Settings are ignored. (I wanted Arial bold, because it's clearer & easier for me to read) I was afraid to change the font on the toaster because I didn't see a button to revert it back to default if there was an issue.

It doesn't read tags properly. It shows the file name where Artist should be, doesn't show album/title/year/genre. This affects the playlist, seekbar, titlebar, and toaster.

Again, at this point, I'm going to have to say it's a Win9x issue since almost all of the issues mentioned above don't happen on any of the WinXP boxes I've tested with. The tag reading is DEFINITELY a Win9x issue since it's using ansi/unicode DLL calls that aren't available in Win9x. I assure you (and everybody) that all the above issues haven't happened on any WinXP box I've tested against.

freeDB worked fine and displayed all the info, but I couldn't get Trout to play CD's at all on that machine. It could be an issue with my drive though. Very few players actually work with it...only 2 that I know of, one came with my keyboard and the other one is some crappy thing that I wrote in VB6. (At least Trout didn't crash like Winamp & WMP does when trying to play CD's)

Hmmmm...I'll go with the drive issue. Hahaha. For the record, I've tested the CD playback on my home desktop, my wife's desktop, my work laptop and several other computers at work. I'm curious to know your findings to all the above issues under WinXP or Vista. Thank you so much for taking the time to test on your WinME box. Due to your feedback, I've gone ahead and taken the Win9x off the supported OS in my initial post.

Even though AHK is does not natively support unicode, I have added unicode support where I can in Trout. The tag reading should support unicode tags and the copy-to-clipboard function will copy in unicode format. If you can test this, please let me know if it works for you. I've tested it on my files and it does work for me.

The search function can be just like foobar2000's small window with input row and beneath the results. One click jump to track and double click start track.

Even though AHK is does not natively support unicode, I have added unicode support where I can in Trout. The tag reading should support unicode tags and the copy-to-clipboard function will copy in unicode format. If you can test this, please let me know if it works for you. I've tested it on my files and it does work for me.

Yeah, what I mean is the playlist. My tracks with cyrillic names are ????? - ????????.

The load time you see in the first screenshot is from my computer (Athlon 64, 2GHz). I've tested it with 65,000+ files and that took about 35 seconds. However, once the list is loaded, I've implemented instant find-as-you-type functionality. It's very similar to the "Jump" functionality in Winamp. Was this what you had in mind?

Great program!What I miss though is:

* rating column and possibility to set the rating of a song by mouseclick or shortcut key

* drag and drop support of an mp3 or folder of mp3s to the icon of Trout I placed in Quickstart of the Windows Toolbar

1) Unfortunately, I've never been much for rating tunes. Also, I was hoping to forever stay away from actually modifying user's files. Apologies.2) Drag and drop to icons should most definitely work; I just tested it on another one of my boxes to be sure. Does it work on a desktop icon? Also, if you use the minibars, you can drop files/folders right onto them.3) I've no interest in making the source open. That being said, I'm more than happy to share techniques or pieces of the code if there was something specific you're interested in.

Could you elaborate, please? Dropping onto what, the playlist? If so, I'm not sure what the issue could be since I use that functionality all day long without issue. Thanks for your continued feedback.